WOLFENBUTTEL  , a See also:

• TOWN

town of See also:

• GERMANY
• GERMANY (Ger. Deutschland)

Germany, in the duchy of See also:

• BRUNSWICK
• BRUNSWICK (Ger. Braunschweig)
• BRUNSWICK, KARL WILHELM FERDINAND, DUKE OF (1735-18o6)

Brunswick, situated on both See also:

• BANKS, GEORGE LINNAEUS (1821-1881)
• BANKS, NATHANIEL PRENTISS (1816–1894)
• BANKS, SIR JOSEPH
• BANKS, THOMAS (1735-1805)

banks of the Oker, 7 M . S. of Brunswick on the railway to See also:

• HARZBURG

Harzburg . Pop . (1905) 19,083 . See also:

• LESSING, GOTTHOLD EPHRAIM (1729–1781)

Lessing was ducal librarian here, and the old library See also:

• BUILDING

building, designed in 1723 in See also:

• IMITATION (Lat. imitatio, from intitari, to imitate)

imitation of the See also:

• PANTHEON (Lat. pantheum or pantheon; Gr. srav& ov, all-holy, from re, s, all, and Oeor god)

Pantheon at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, contains a See also:

• MARBLE (from Lat. marmor, Gr. pApµapos, shining stone)

marble statue of him . The library, including 300,000 printed books and 1o,000 See also:

• MSS

MSS., was, however, transferred to a large and new See also:

• RENAISSANCE, THE

Renaissance edifice in 1887 . It is especially See also:

• RICH, BARNABE (c. 1540-1617)
• RICH, CLAUDIUS JAMES (1787-1821)
• RICH, JOHN (1692-1761)
• RICH, PENELOPE, LADY (c. 1562–1607)
• RICH, RICHARD, 1ST BARON RICH (1490?-1567)

rich in Bibles, See also:

• INCUNABULA

incunabula and books of the See also:

• EARLY
• EARLY, JUBAL ANDERSON (1816-1894)

early See also:

• REFORMATION
• REFORMATION, THE

Reformation See also:

• PERIOD
• PERIOD (Gr. irepioSos, a going or way round, circuit, aepi, round, and &Sis, way, road)

period, and contains some fragments of the See also:

• GOTHIC

Gothic See also:

• BIBLE
• BIBLE, ENGLISH

bible of See also:

• ULFILAS (c. 311-383)

Ulfilas . Opposite the old library is the See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

palace, now occupied by a See also:

• SEMINARY (Lat. seminarium, from semen, seed)

seminary . The ducal See also:

• BURIAL

burial-vault is in the See also:

• CHURCH
• CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
• CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
• CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
• CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
• CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)

church of St See also:

• MARY
• MARY (1457-1482)
• MARY (1496-1533)
• MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS

Mary . A See also:

• CASTLE
• CASTLE (Lat. castellum, a fort, diminutive of castra, a camp; Fr. chateau and chdtel)

castle is said to have been founded on the site of Wolfenbuttel by a See also:

• MARGRAVE (Ger. Markgraf)

margrave of See also:

• MEISSEN

Meissen about 1046 . When this began in 1267 to be the See also:

• RESIDENCE (Latin residere, to remain behind, to dwell, reside)

residence of the early Brunswick or Wolfenbuttel See also:

• LINE

line of See also:

• COUNTS

counts, a town gradually See also:

• GREW, NEHEMIAH (1641-1712)

grew up around it . In 1542 it was taken by the See also:

• SAXONS

Saxons and Hessians, who, however, evacuated it five years later after the See also:

• BATTLE

battle of Miihlberg .

In the See also:

• THIRTY

Thirty Years' See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

War, in See also:

• JUNE

June 1641, the Swedes, under See also:

• WRANGEL, FRIEDRICH HEINRICH ERNST, COUNT VON (1784–1877)
• WRANGEL, KARL GUSTAV VON (1613-1676)

Wrangel and See also:

• KONIGSMARK, MARIA AURORA, COUNTESS OF (1662–1728)
• KONIGSMARK, PHILIPP CHRISTOPH, COUNT OF (1665-1694)

Konigsmark, defeated the Austrians under the See also:

• ARCHDUKE (Lat. archidux, Ger. Erzherzog)

archduke See also:

• LEOPOLD (M.H. Ger. Liupolt; O.H. Ger. Liupald, from hut, Mod. Ger. Leute, " people," and paid, " bold," i.e. " bold for the people ")

Leopold at Wolfenbuttel . The town passed wholly into the See also:

• POSSESSION
• POSSESSION (Lat. possessio, possidere, to possess)

possession of the Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel See also:

• FAMILY

family in 1671, and for nearly one See also:

• HUNDRED

hundred years enjoyed the distinction of being the ducal See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital . In 1754, however, See also:

• DUKE (corresponding to Fr. duc, Ital. duca, Ger. Herzog)

Duke See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles transferred the ducal residence to Brunswick . See Voges, Erzahlungen aus der Geschichte der Stadt Wolfenbuttel (Wolfenbuttel, 1882); von Heinemann, See also:

• DIE
• DIE (Fr. de, from Lat. datum, given)

Die herzogliche Bibliothek zu Wolfenbuttel (2nd ed., Wolfenbuttel, 1894) . For the " Wolfenbtittel fragments " see LESSING and REIMABUS .